[Digikam-users] Timeline view feedback

[Gandalf Lechner]

Hello,

I played a bit with the new timeline view in current svn. It's a very nice 
addition to the program, and it's working stable and without problems for 
me - thanks a lot to the developers!
Here I would like to provide some feedback on the user interaction with the 
new tool, which in my opinion could be improved:

At first, you see this big rectangle shaped "cursor" to navigate through the 
timeline, and I was slightly confused that selecting a year (or month, 
week ...) doesn't result in showing you the pictures within the selected 
year. As far as I can tell, the cursor is currently only intended to count 
the images in the database which match the corresponding time selection. To 
filter images, you instead have to use the narrow bar at the bottom of the 
timeline viewer, which I overlooked at first.
	Probably, most users are more interested in finding images taken in some time 
interval, rather than just counting images; in particular since the bar view 
already gives you an approximate idea about the relative numbers of images 
involved (maybe there could be some vertical axis with a scale on it, too?).
	So my suggestion would be to exchange the functionality of the big cursor and 
the small bar at the bottom. What I would like even better would be to have a 
single cursor thing only, which does the selection and counting business at 
the same time - control of the timeline view would then be simpler and more 
natural.

Best regards,
Gandalf